Bogaerts, Bradley top Sox prospect list

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 10:37am — Alex Speier

Xander Bogaerts, who in 2012 became the first Red Sox teenager since Tony Conigliaro in 1964 to launch 20 or more homers in a season, earned top-prospect honors in the Red Sox system from Baseball America, which posted its list of the top 10 prospects in the team's farm system on Wednesday. As a 19-year-old in High-A Salem and Double-A Portland, Bogaerts hit .307 with a .373 OBP, .523 slugging mark, .896 OPS and 20 homers in 127 games while playing shortstop.

Here's how the Red Sox' top 10 stacked up, with 2012 "season age" (meaning a player's age on July 1) and level in parentheses:

For a Minor Details podcast with Jim Callis of Baseball America discussing the top-10 rankings (and several other prospects), click here[1]. For more on Bogaerts (whether his future is at shortstop, and when he might be a consideration in the big leagues), click here[2]. For complete Red Sox coverage, visit weei.com/redsox[3].